The underground cult classic! Essays that redefine the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho -black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults - this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. is beginning to worm its way into above-ground culture. This book offers inspired blasts of writing, from slogans to historical essays, on the need to insert revolutionary happiness into everyday life through poetic action, and celebrating the radical optimism present in outlaw cultures. It should appeal to alternative thinkers and punks everywhere, as it celebrates liberation, love and poetic living. The new edition contains the full text of Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism, the complete communiques and flyers of the Association of Ontological Anarchy, the long essay 'The Temporary Autonomous Zone,' and a new preface by the author.

Inspiration for a generation of troublemakers and idealists. Both celebrated in the punk underground (where the original book has become a seminal text) and denounced in some anarchist circles, the book has proved itself as both influential and relevant to multiple generations of dreamers, agitators, and activists. Hakim Bey's first book, originally published in 1985, refers in its title to "a mobile or transcient location free of economic and social interference by the State," and through a series of incendiary communiques, short essays, and poetic historical analysis insists on the production of greater autonomy in the present moment, rather than the acceptance of domination in exchange for the promise of some future utopia.

Contents:
1. CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM
Chaos
Poetic Terrorism
Amour Fou
Wild Children
Paganism
Art Sabotage
The Assassins
Pyrotechnics
Chaos Myths
Pornography
Crime
Sorcery
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2. COMMUNIQUES OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY
Communique #1: I. Slogans & Mottos for Subway Graffiti & Other Purposes / II. Some Poetic-Terrorist Ideas Still Sadly Languishing in the Realm of "Conceptual Art"
Communique #2: The Kallikak Memorial Bolo & Chaos Ashram: A Proposal
Communique #3: Haymarket Issue
Communique #4: The End of the World
Communique #5: "Intellectual S/M Is the Fascism of the Eighties-The Avant-Garde Eats Shit and Likes It"
Communique #6: I. Salon Apocalypse: "Secret Theater" / II. Murder-War-FamineGreed
Communique #7: Psychic Paleolithism & High Technology: A Position Paper
Communique #8: Chaos Theory & the Nuclear Family
Communique #9: Double Dip Denunciations
Communique #10: Plenary Session Issues New Denunciations-Purges Expected
Communique #11 : Special Holiday Season Food Issue Rant: Turn Off the Lite!
Special Halloween Communique: Black Magic as Revolutionary Action
Special Communique: A.0.A. Announces Purges in Chaos Movement
Post-Anarchism Anarchy
Black Crown & Black Rose: Anarcho-Monarchism & Anarcho-Mysticism
Instructions for the Kali Yuga
Against the Reproduction of Death
Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism
For a Congress of Weird Religions
Hollow Earth
Nietzsche & the Dervishes
Resolution for the 1990's: Boycott Cop Culture!!!
3. THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE
Pirate Utopias
Waiting for the Revolution
The Psychotopology of Everyday Life
The Net and the Web
"Gone to Croatan"
Music as an Organizational Principle
The Will To Power as Disappearance
Ratholes in the Babylon of Information
Appendix A: Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics
Appendix B: Applied Hedonics
Appendix C: Extra Quotes

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